Author name: Ricky Vasquez

Shared housing reforms gain traction as cities address affordability

Boarding and lodging houses played an important role during American industrialization.​ Could they make a come-back? Rural people and immigrants relied on them when they sought jobs in rapidly urbanizing cities and affordable housing was scarce. Cities zoned them largely out of existence over the past roughly 75 years.​ Now, they’re getting fresh consideration and […]

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MBA presses FHFA to drop tri-merge credit report rule

The Mortgage Bankers Association is standing firm on its initiatives to help lenders find credit-report cost relief with its latest call to eliminate the tri-merge purchase requirement for a segment of borrowers.  Processing Content In a letter addressed to Federal Housing Finance Agency Director Bill Pulte in mid December, MBA requested that the regulator, which

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